Georgia Tech finished its regular-season home baseball schedule on Sunday. The big question: Will the Yellow Jackets be back at Russ Chandler Stadium for the NCAA tournament?

They're 36-15 after winning the weekend series against Clemson but losing Sunday 16-6. They're also only 14-13 in the ACC.

Sixteen teams host regionals, and though an online approximation of the NCAA's ratings percentage index ranks Tech seventh in the nation, only one poll ranks the Jackets in the Top 25.

"I know we need to have another good week," Tech coach Danny Hall said. "We had a good week this week [going 3-1, with a non-conference victory at Georgia]. As long as we have another good week, we increase our odds, but there's no knowing what the NCAA might do."

Tech plays Georgia on Tuesday at Turner Field, visits Virginia for its final ACC series and then heads to the ACC tournament at Jacksonville.

The Jackets have won nine of their last 12 games. What they haven't done is sweep a weekend series since March. They've had the pitching depth to win 22 of 24 games against non-conference opponents but have lacked the consistency from their top starters to set themselves apart in league play. Tech and Virginia are tied for fifth in the ACC.

The starter with the best ERA, freshman Deck McGuire, pitches midweek games. He'll be going for his third victory over SEC champion Georgia on Tuesday. Hall will have an interesting decision to make on where to use McGuire in the postseason rotation.

For now, Hall leaves it at this: Tech will need more than three starting pitchers to win the ACC tournament.

One of those is Eddie Burns, whose performance on Saturday was the story of the weekend for Tech.

Burns (6-4) allowed one run through eight innings. It was the first time since March that he allowed fewer earned runs than innings pitched.

"No doubt about it, I'd been kind of in a little bit of a rut. I struggled a little bit," Burns said. "It was good to be able to come out and have some success."

"He pitched in my mind his best game of the year, when we needed him to pitch good," Hall said. "We kind of let him call his own game. He was very aggressive, particularly with his fastball, and he was committed to everything he was doing."

The importance of Burns' success wasn't lost on his teammates, who had won only one of the past four ACC games he pitched.

"It was awesome for the team. Everybody was rooting him on," co-captain Brad Feltes said. "It helped out the team big-time when we saw him go. It got us pumped up and made us play a little harder for him."

From McGuire (8-0) Wednesday at Athens to David Duncan (7-2) Friday against Clemson through Burns' outing on Saturday, Tech allowed only one run in three consecutive games. That streak ended with a thud on Sunday, a day Tech played like a team only a mother could love.

Clemson pounded a season-high 20 hits. The Tigers (26-25-1, 11-18-1 ACC) are clinging to eighth place and the final ACC tournament berth but have clinched their first losing ACC record since 1972.

Hall called it "in my mind our worst game of the year," but he told his players to get over it.

"Don't let the way we played [Sunday] ruin the fact that we had a great week," he said.